Retirement Coaching & Resources
Retirement Coaching
Retirement Resources
Let's Retire Retirement - and get ReFired! ReWired! Renewed! Rejuvenated!
Create the life you want in your "third age" - your final years. NOW is the time!
Retirement Coaching is the fastest growing niche for coaches today. Over 80 million Baby Boomers reached retirement age (57) in 2000; over 10,000 people retire per day in the US. Older adults are healthier, more vigorous, better educated, and more financially secure than ever before; they can expect to live 30 years in retirement. (Average age = 85 for many people). It’s therefore crucial that you plan your retirement early in order to create a life that is full of meaning and purpose, not just leisure time. This final life stage is a time when people - YOU - have the opportunity to live their dream!
A coach can help you do that the best! Let me help you.
(Some) Retirement Coaching GOALS
- Identify the 15 life factors which will positively impact retirement decisions and/or future retirement lifestyle
- Learn about the RSP (Retirement Success Profile) assessment tool which helps you identify areas to focus on to best prepare for retirement
- Gain valuable information that will help you be better prepared for your retirement years
- Partner with someone who will help you identify your specific retirement goals.
As a certified retirement coach I will support and inspire you to create the life you want in your "third age."
Contact me for a complimentary, exploratory phone call to determine your next steps.
Erik Erikson's Adult Life Stages - The New Model
Adult developmental pioneer, Erik Erikson identified eight life stages. He perceived that each life stage was marked by a crisis or task that must be resolved in order for the individual to move on successfully to the next. He also believed that each developmental task was defined in terms of a dichotomy, which could have either a desirable or an undesirable outcome.
Stage 1: Infancy (Age 0–1) Trust vs. Mistrust
Stage 2: Toddler (Age 1-2) Autonomy vs. Doubt
Stage 3: Early Childhood (Age 2-6) Initiative vs. Guilt
Stage 4: Elementary Years (Age 6-12) Competence vs. Inferiority
Stage 5: Adolescence (Age 12-18) Identity vs. Role Confusion
Stage 6: Young Adult (Age 19-40) Intimacy vs. Isolation
Stage 7: Middle Adult (Age 40–55) Generativity vs. Stagnation
(New) Stage 8: Late Adult (Age 55-75) Renew vs. Retire
Stage 9: Elder Adult (Age 75-90) Integrity vs. Despair
(New) Stage 10: Oldest Adult (90 – death) Gero-Transcendence
Erikson was concerned about the growing uselessness of elders in modern society. He felt strongly that the whole world suffers – not just the individual – as elders are removed from the tapestry of intergenerational life. Old age demands that one garner and lean on all previous experience, maintaining awareness and creativity with a new grace. We can look back over a long past, and so doing helps us understand our lives and the world we live in……the only thing that can save us as a species is …generativity…that will promote positive values in the lives of the next generation.
Erikson’s wife, Joan, continued with his research after his death. She identified a Ninth (Tenth?) stage (while she was in her 90’s) which she called Gero-Transcendence. She reflected that in this more spiritual lifestage, the individual experiences a shift from a materialistic, rational perspective to a more cosmic and transcendent vision
(note: all information from Age Power, Ken Dychtwald)
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- Prime Time: How Baby Boomers will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America, Freedman
- Purpose and Power in Retirement: New Opportunities for Meaning and Significance, Koenig
- by Jimmy Carter: Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of your Life also The Virtue of Aging
- Retiring as a Career: Making the Most of your Retirement, Betsy Kyte Newman
- Retire Early and Live the Life You Want Now, John Wasik
- Too Young to Retire: 101 Ways to Start the Rest of Your Life, Marika and Howard Stone
- 101 Secrets for a Great Retirement: Practical, Inspirational, & Fun Ideas
for the Best Years of Your Life, also The Retirement Sourcebook, Mary Helen and Shuford Smith
- ReFirement: A Boomer’s Guide to Life after 50, also The ReFirement Workbook, Gambone, Whittlinger, & Magnuson
- Don’t ReTire, ReWire! 5 Steps to Fulfilling Work that Fuels your Passion, Suits your Personality, or Fills your Pocket, Sedlar and Miners
- The New Retire-Mentality: Planning Your Life and Living Your Dreams at any Age You Want, Mitch Anthony
- The Last Gift of Time Beyond Sixty, Carolyn Heilbrun
- Age Power: How the 21st Century will be Ruled by the New Old, Ken Dychtwald
- Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life, George Vaillant
- It’s Only too Late if you don’t Start Now: How to Create your Second Life at Any Age, Sher
- The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Getting it Right the Second Time Around, Null
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